16 - The Syllable RA : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This is the 16th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RA in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see "a ? ? filler".

The Syllable RA in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

Syllabic Value of the Sign (Symbol) (there was no universally established AEIOU vowel system yet in this era, and there were dipthongs, so that a strict AEIOU system here is a bit misleading)	Cypriot Syllabary signs from the BabelMap (Unicode Character Map for Windows)	Linear B (Ventris & followers) (standard Bennet numbers in parentheses) Aegean Font	Phaistos Disk (Kaulins) (first deciphered by him in the years 1978- 1980)	Axe of Arkalochori (Kaulins) (these same basic signs are also on the Phaistos Disk). This column also provides explanatory photo images for various Minoan symbols	Elamite Script (Kaulins) (same basic signs as the Phaistos Disk -  see also here)	Sumerian Pictographs and/or Egyptian Hieroglyphs and/or sign commentary on individual symbols
RA The Linear B sign is not intuitive, but similar to the Sumerian RA sign of a square object and curl(er), shown with 4 spokes as a square seal? Halloran writes that RA is syllabic value for a seal stamped into clay. So the Linear B sign and Sumerian are a match. The Elamite symbol is unclear in meaning but has a syllable-unknown Sumerian comparable, perhaps a term like Latvian robs “notch”.	Cypriot syllabary �� RA Sun & Earth Egyptian hieroglyph RA sun disk	Linear B ��(60) RA ῥόμβος (“round, roll”) A comparable Sumerian sign reads RA for “roll a seal into clay” -  John A. Halloran, Sumerian  Lexicon, Version 3.0.	Phaistos Disk �� RA ῥόμβος "round, roll" A similar Aegean design on a sword can be seen at Salimbeti. Com Micenei	No similar sign on Axe A game like hockey with ball and stick was played in Ancient Greece and Egypt. It is very unlikely to be a sign, but is mentioned here for the Linear B and Sumerian signs, as I considered it. Thumb of image found at Ancient Olympics.	Elamite RA ῥάβδος "rod, wand, spear (shaft)" spear point Latvian robs “notch, groove”	Sumerian (Jaritz #609) "RA - roll (a seal into clay)”- J.A. Halloran RA Sumerian (Jaritz #734) Unknown syllabic value